Re: [julia-users] Re: ERROR: syntax: "±" is not a unary operator

2016-06-22 Thread Stefan Karpinski
Side comment: ± should probably be allowed as a unary operator. On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Kaj Wiik wrote: > To wrap this item up, it would be good to know where the distinction > (parsing) is done in sources? > > Thanks, > Kaj > > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 5:03:09 PM UTC+3, Steven

[julia-users] Re: ERROR: syntax: "±" is not a unary operator

2016-06-22 Thread Kaj Wiik
To wrap this item up, it would be good to know where the distinction (parsing) is done in sources? Thanks, Kaj On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 5:03:09 PM UTC+3, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:34:00 PM UTC+1, Kaj Wiik wrote: >> >> Yes, it is probably a binary ope

[julia-users] Re: ERROR: syntax: "±" is not a unary operator

2016-06-22 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:34:00 PM UTC+1, Kaj Wiik wrote: > > Yes, it is probably a binary operator but searches fail to find it. > Certain symbols are parsed as operators, and others are parsed as identifiers. This is independent of whether that symbol is defined in Base. For example

[julia-users] Re: ERROR: syntax: "±" is not a unary operator

2016-06-22 Thread Kaj Wiik
Yes, it is probably a binary operator but searches fail to find it. Any use would also clash with Measurements.jl, so it'd be a bad idea anyway :-). Thanks, Kaj On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 4:02:57 PM UTC+3, David van Leeuwen wrote: > > It probably is defined as an operator, but without defin

[julia-users] Re: ERROR: syntax: "±" is not a unary operator

2016-06-22 Thread David van Leeuwen
It probably is defined as an operator, but without definition. julia> ±(a,b) = (a+b, a-b) ± (generic function with 1 method) julia> 3±4 (7,-1) your assignment probably overrides the default operator. ---david On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:08:21 PM UTC+2, Kaj Wiik wrote: > > > I have a